Excerpt from William Thornton and Negro Colonization
On May 27, 1761, their son William was born. I have fixed the year approximately by circumstantial evidence; for he never disclosed it and there are no vital statistics for Tortola. When William Thornton was two years old his father died, and when he was five he was sent to his fathers relatives, his grandfather and aunts, in Lancashire, England, to be educated. In 1777, when he was sixteen, he was apprenticed to a Doctor Fell of Ulverstone, England, to learn the business of a doctor, who was also then an apothecary, a dentist and a phlebotomist. Thornton attended Doctor Fell's shop, learned to make boluses and plasters, how to bleed people and how to pull their teeth out, and before he left Doctor Fell he had earned several sixpences and shillings with his lancet and forceps. After three years with Doctor Fell he went to Edinburgh to take the finishing course in medicine for which the University at that city was famous. He entered in 1781 and took his degree in 1784. After a brief return to Tortola he went to Paris to continue his scientific studies and there he learned a great deal and made many pleasant acquaintances. By this time he had formed the definite idea that he was to be a leader in the world, but to obtain this leadership a large private fortune was needed and he determined to acquire it by marriage. In 1787 he came to America and made a considerable stay in Philadelphia and Wilmington. It was at this time that he addressed himself to Governor John Dickinson, of Delaware, and asked the hand of the Governor's daughter in marriage. The Governor was rich and had married an heiress himself, but he rejected Thornton's overtures because he thought his daughter was too young to marry, she being only sixteen years old.
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